Mark Wigglesworth was born in Sussex, England and after studying conductingat the Royal Academy of Music in London, won the Kondrashin InternationalConducting Competition in The Netherlands in 1989. In 1992 he becameAssociate Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and since then has heldthe positions of Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio SymphonyOrchestra and Music Director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.Mark has guest conducted most of the UK’s orchestras and has worked withmany of Europe’s finest ensembles, including the Berlin Philharmonic;Amsterdam Concertgebouw; La Scala Filarmonica, Milan; Accademia Nazionaledi Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome; Gothenburg Symphony; StockholmPhilharmonic; Oslo Philharmonic, Helsinki Radio Symphony, SalzburgMozarteum Orchestra, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. He is just as busy inNorth America having been invited to the Cleveland Orchestra, New YorkPhilharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los AngelesPhilharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal,and the Boston Symphony. He frequently visits the Minnesota Orchestra andDetroit Symphony and has an on-going relationship with the New WorldSymphony. In Australia he works regularly with both the Sydney and the

Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.Equally at home in the Opera House, Mark Wigglesworth started his operaticcareer with a period as Music Director of Opera Factory, London, and has sinceworked at Glyndebourne (Peter Grimes, La Boheme, Le Nozze di Figaro), WelshNational Opera (Elektra, The Rake's Progress, Tristan und Isolde), and EnglishNational Opera (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Cosi fan Tutte, Falstaff, KatyaKabanova). He has conducted at the Netherlands Opera (Peter Grimes); LaMonnaie in Brussels (Mitridate, Wozzeck, Pelleas et Melisande); TheMetropolitan Opera, New York (Le Nozze di Figaro); and The Royal OperaHouse, Covent Garden (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). In 2009 he made hisdebut at the Sydney Opera House, conducting a new production of Peter Grimesand in 2011 returns to ENO for Parsifal.